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How did southerners limit the freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War?

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When slavery ended in the United states, freedom still eluded African Americans who were contending with the repressive set of laws know as the black codes. Widely enacted throughout the south following the civil war - a period called reconstruction - these laws both limited the rights of black people and exploited them as a labor source.

In fact, life after bondage didn't differ much from life during bondage for the African Americans subjected to the black codes. This was by design, as slavery had been a multi - billion dollar enterprise, and the former Confederate states sought a way to continue this system.

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Some states limited the type of property that Black people could own, while virtually all the former Confederate states passed strict vagrancy and labor contract laws, as well as so-called “anti-enticement” measures designed to punish anyone who offered higher wages to a Black laborer already under contract.

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